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4runner lifting
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 7:57 pm
by BeZeRK
anyone here got a 4runner, and lifted it 2 inches...
planning on doing it in the next week or 2 and wanna know how much trouble ya went to... what could you get away with and what had to be modified!?
did you use a bought kit and was it better than making it all yourself?
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 8:40 pm
by NICK
you mean body lift?
NICK
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 8:43 pm
by .MYTLUX.
just buy the bits yourself, shouldmt cost more than $70-80.
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 11:57 pm
by hophoar
If your talking body lift, its easy as. Just buy the blocks and then the bolts, you want 4x6.5", 4x5.5 and 2x5" for the front.For a manual you need to bend shifters a bit and remove one or two boots, on a auto all you have to do is bend the 4wd selector and remove one boot. Add a little fender seam pounding and your set for 33's
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 12:48 pm
by .MYTLUX.
hophoar said "you want 4x6.5", 4x5.5 and 2x5""
which bolts are for the front, i know there are 2 shorter ones, by the way mines is a 90 single cab.
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 12:40 am
by hophoar
Blair, The 5" ones are for the front , I've got a 4runner so it will be different from a single cab although I recon the cab bolts would be the same. The easyist way is to pull the bolts and measure them.
John.
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 4:21 pm
by .MYTLUX.
yeh i think thats what i will do, just take em out then nip down to a shop and get 2" longer bolts.
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 10:16 pm
by POS
Yeah its a piece of piss to do a body lift on a runner/hilux.
Just buy the blocks and bolts and done.
You dont need to modify anything like brake lines the only thing would be the steering arm from the box to the steeringwheel and if you have a bullbar you need to lift it aswell, which can be a bit tricky.
Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 10:43 pm
by beebee
If you need to extend you steering shaft (depends on your model) you can either cut and weld or buy and extension from snake racing or big balls.
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 7:24 am
by dave
cut and weld is not legal by the way buy the extention.it will only cost you another couple of dollars. its a no brainer job though
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 9:14 am
by ToNkA
I used a cut and welded one for about 6 months, then found one to fit from a 89 4 runner IFS.
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 12:13 pm
by hophoar
I've done two, one on mine and another on a surf , all I had to do was extend the shaft under the tilt steering and then on the surf drill the bulkhead to relocate the bushing for the steering
Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 12:21 pm
by Wendle
16mm solid spacer with longer bolts in the guts of the rag joint, and punch out the two lugs & replace with sleeved bolts.